From the Wilderness: 1996-2006

CIA and drugs

"This is the man who cost CIA Director Deutch his guaranteed appointment
as Secretary of Defense after confronting him at Locke High School with
hard facts about CIA dealing drugs."
-- Dick Gregory

" ...in the course of investigations in the mid 70's he came across
information that the CIA was trading drugs in order to fund covert operations
in the Middle East...Perot called him back to offer encouragement...Ruppert
says that his main objective is to see that the country gets a leader
worthy of its people. Even for Ross Perot those will be tough shoes to
fill."
-- People Magazine 6/22/1992

Personal note: I was among those whose eyes were opened by MCR, not only about 9/11, but about the virtue of what he called 'map-making' as a tool for providing context for world events, such as the Western air-strikes smashing Syria as I write these words. I am privileged to have had the chance to interview him more than once. Rest in Peace Tracker of Truth! – [Michael A. Welch, April 13, 2018]

This week, the Global Research News Hour radio program marks the fourth anniversary of the death of an independent journalist and alternative media figure who served as an inspiration to many in the post 9/11 period. His name was Michael C Ruppert.

MCR first gained notoriety on the public stage after his confrontation with CIA Director John Deutsch in 1996, when he essentially outed the agency's involvement dealing drugs in the US.

He would go on to found a newsletter and website: From The Wilderness, which featured ground-braking stories on government corruption and malfeasance along with incisive geopolitical and economic analysis.

Among the stories pursued by Ruppert and FTW: the dependence of the world economic system on drug money laundering, the phenomenon of peak oil, the demonstrable deceptions surrounding the war in Iraq, and the friendly fire death of U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman.

Among the biggest marks Ruppert ever left however, was his expert dismantling of the official story of 9/11. He wrote a major, heavily footnoted tome on the subject which not only named Vice President Dick Cheney as the prime suspect in the attacks, but connected the event with peak oil and the corruption of the U.S. economy.

Yet in spite of such achievements, far from being rewarded for challenging power, Ruppert found himself in precarious circumstances, struggling with emotional instability, mocked and maligned as a 'conspiracy theorist'. It appears that overwhelmed by personal and world circumstances, he took his own life on the evening of April 13, 2014.

In this special anniversary program, with the help of some of his many friends and acquaintances who graciously agreed to be interviewed for this show, we will try to get a better understanding of his achievements, his struggles, and the meaning of his untimely death.

Carolyn Baker was an adjunct professor of history and psychology for 11 years and a psychotherapist in private practice for 17 years. She contributed to Ruppert's on-line newsletter From The Wilderness, and co-hosted his final radio broadcast before he died. She continues to host the weekly 'Lifeboat Hour' podcast which Ruppert started.

Barry Silverthorn is a Canadian cinematographer who has worked on programs for the Vision channel, and had worked with fellow Canadian Barrie Zwicker to produce the acclaimed documentary film 'End of Suburbia' in which Ruppert made an appearance. Silverthorn hosted Ruppert in his home when he returned from Venezuela.

Mark Robinowitz is a writer, political activist, ecological campaigner and permaculture practitioner and publisher of oilempire.us, a political map to connect the dots. His site features an 'In Memorium' section which profiles not only MCR, but a similar researcher: John Judge.

Mimi German is an Earth activist and poet and Portland Oregon resident who has helped monitor radioactive fall-out from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster through the Radcast platform she founded. She became close friends with Mike Ruppert and was in fact one of his last guests before he died.

Music for the radio feature (not available in the soundcloud version) was by David Baerwald, who Michael Ruppert had also been close to in life.

In addition, excerpts of two past CKUW interviews with Mike Ruppert are included here:

From the Wilderness: a retrospective

As the former publisher/editor of "From The Wilderness" (FTW) which broke the Pat Tilman case wide open in the early summer of 2006 I applaud your article.

In May of 2006, after being contacted by Mary Tillman, Pat's mother, I drove to her home near San Jose and copied 2,000 pages of Army records that revealed the depth of USG duplicity and criminal activity in the case. I then flew my Military Affairs Editor, Stan Goff (US Army Special Forces, retired) to our corporate offices in Oregon and we spent days analyzing and decoding those records.

As many mainstream writers have noted to me privately, the AP, Washington Post and L.A. Times (among others) stories which broke the Tillman case open in August and September were virtual cut and pastes of our original copyrighted series. If you don't believe me, just ask Mary "Dannie" Tillman directly. On my bookshelf, among maybe 30 other autographed volumes ranging from Daniel Ellsberg to Gordon Liddy, sits a copy of Mary Tillman's book autographed by herself and Pat's brothers Kevin and Richard. It thanks me for the help we gave the family.

Every congressional handout used by the Tillman family was a copy of our series which is still posted on the FTW site at http://www.fromthewilderness.com. Henry Waxman, who chaired the Tillman hearings, had been one of my subscribers for many years.

As we were running the series, my offices were burglarized in June of 2006 and all 7 of our computers were destroyed with a sledge hammer. I cannot prove this was a US government operation but we will always suspect it.

During our eight and a half years FTW broke many major stories that were picked up by the mainstream. Never once did we get any acknowledgement, even from Salon, which ran several stories based upon my documentation of five war game exercises takng place on 9/11 which effectively prevented any effective Air Force response to the hijackings.

Other major stories we broke included details of massive insider trading on 9/11, the fact that former CIA spy Edwin Wilson had been convicted with perjured CIA testimony, the fact that the wife of Medellin Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder was employed by insurance giant AIG, and that Texas Gov. George W. Bush was flying in a state-owned airplane once oned by the legendary drug smuggler Barry Seal.

Never once have we been acknowledged by the mainstream press.

The plain fact is that the mainstream media scours the net and blatantly rips off the work of indy journalists who almost never get any credit at all. To me and many others it is a shameless and dishonorable form of theft.

Michael C. Ruppert

Author: "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil".

Advice for those looking to continue the spirit of FTW: Read Crossing
the Rubicon. Read the FTW archives. Understand our maps on oil&gas,
geo-political events, the economy, and renewable energy. Once you understand
this to the best of your ability follow the news, link relevant reports
at the blog and analyze them. Follow the websites that are in FTW's links
section, but do not assume they are always 100% correct in their analysis.
FTW's demise could be a resurgence for critical thinking and personal
responsibility. No longer do you have the crutch of FTW - now you have
to do it on your own. Keep following and contributing to the blog and
watch for reports and articles from past FTW writers to help guide you.
We are not gone entirely. For example Stan Goff is still writing feverishly.
www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200601003_white_supremacism_sexism_militarism/

Personally, I believe the last article of true importance on Peak Oil
in the context of geo-political events (which has been the FTW mandate)
was written on October 4, 2005 by Mike Ruppert and myself titled THE MARKETS
REACT TO PEAK OIL. That report details the bumpy plateau of oil production
that we are now balancing upon. That report was the last relevant word
on the geo-political reality of Peak Oil. That reality is now history.
It is virtually written in stone. The only thing that matters now is the
LOCAL reality of Peak Oil. Anyone focussing on geo-political events like
a soap opera has not paid close enough attention to FTW's past 5 years
of work. There are greater forces at play that are out of our control
- both political and spiritual. We must recognize what we can control
and start taking responsibility for it. The end of FTW came at the perfect
time - it sends the right message at the right time. Stop worrying about
the world's problems and start worrying about your community's problems.
The latter is actually within your grasp. Start fixing your own personal
problems. If you want to be a valid and valuable member of a Post-Peak
community you need to get over your hang-ups, maximize your health, exercise
extreme mental discipline, develop excellent socialization skills (perhaps
the most important), and ready your mind to open up and take in the many
important skills and lessons you will need to thrive and survive; this
is the knowledge we must pass on to the next generation.

Stuck on Oil
Michael Ruppert on the messy decline of the oil age
BY KERA ABRAHAM

Michael Ruppert is a leading proponent of the theory that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, part of a scheme to control the world's dwindling oil supply. He publishes a newsletter called "From the Wilderness" from his base in L.A., and he explores the connections between oil and the military in his 2004 bestseller, Crossing the Rubicon: The decline of the American Empire at the end of the Age of Oil. Ruppert will speak at McDonald Theater at 7 pm May 31 about the politics of peak oil. For more information, visit www.fromthewilderness.com

What is peak oil? All oil production follows a bell curve. Peak oil is the moment in time when you are at the apex of the bell curve. No matter how much money, technology or effort you throw at it, you will never be able to increase oil production after that point. It will be in a steady, permanent decline.

How does peak oil relate to our military? The United States has been aware of peak oil for quite a long time, and peak oil is on us now. The attacks of 9/11, which I have shown were facilitated by the U.S. government, and all subsequent U.S. military deployments have been engineered with one specific goal: to control the last remaining oil reserves on the planet.

Tell me what you think happened on 9/11. It's very clear that the U.S. government, under the control of Vice President Richard Cheney, had scheduled five conflicting war games for the morning of Sept. 11, which moved a substantial number of the U.S. fighter response forces out of the region so that they could not respond. The so-called hijackers were, in effect, agents working for the U.S. government. Al Qaeda had been co-opted to perpetrate the attack, which then gave the U.S. government the pretext for all the military adventurism and occupation that has taken place since.

Why do you think the mainstream media parroted the Bush administration's version of events? In some cases, the mainstream media did not, because there were many stories coming out of the mainstream media that flatly contradicted the Bush administration's line of events on 9-11. But the mainstream media failed to acknowledge, recognize, address or even pursue these glaring inconsistencies, and the same holds true for the so-called 9-11 Independent Commission report, which was nothing more than a cover-up, a fabrication, a packet full of very demonstrable lies.

Why does this administration cling so desperately to oil when alternative energy sources are available? There is no replacement for what hydrocarbon energy does for human life on this planet. Until you change the way money works, you cannot change the way energy is used. We live in an economic paradigm that requires infinite economic growth, and all economic growth requires energy. So there are no solutions. And rather than address the problem sanely, the United States government has just taken a position of, 'We will take whatever we need to take, wherever we need to take it — damn the world, full speed ahead — to protect our way of life.' The U.S. has committed to a bitter, bloody war to the end to control oil. All over the planet, the world is in full revolt because where the U.S. takes oil, other economies suffer.

What would it take to shift this country toward more sustainable energy sources? Again, nothing is going to change this country's path. We have passed the point of no return. It takes 30 years to change energy infrastructure. Even SAIC, Science Applied International Corporations, which does huge government intelligence contracts — they're the heart of the military-industrial complex — has a report that was leaked out that says very clearly, 'Listen, guys, we need to start something right now, but it may be too late to save everything.

Is the federal government interested in 'saving' anything? No. I believe that the policies of the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve and the Bush administration — especially in regard to the foreign trade deficit, the U.S. budget deficit, the pricing of the dollar and the exportation of American manufacturing jobs — show one intent and one intent only, which is bankrupting the United States. I predict major economic collapse in this country.

Why would the U.S. government want to do that? First of all, these people are not tied to the United States. Their money has all been moved offshore. People in the United States are saddled with mountains and mountains of debt. We have the highest per-capita debt level ever in U.S. history. We can't buy any more stuff on credit. The market here is saturated. The deal is to collapse this market and come back and foreclose on everything. China, however, is a vastly untapped market where the demands are very high. The rich elites in this country will be happy to shut this economy down. That serves two purposes. It allows them to foreclose on real estate property and jobs, but it also reduces demand for hydrocarbon energy.

How much time do we have before this major economic collapse? I predict it will start this year, and we're certainly seeing some signs of that. GM and Ford bonds have been downgraded to junk status. United Airlines has just taken away all of its employees' pensions. There's a whole litany of things that are showing just how weak the U.S. economy is right now. As happened during the Great Depression, we will have large-scale domestic and economic upheavals. Now, this is not gonna happen overnight. It will happen progressively along with blackouts. By 2007, these blackouts are going to start becoming permanent simply because there's not enough oil.

Did you always have this worldview? No, I most certainly did not. I'm an only child who was born into a conservative Republican family. My grandfather and my father were both veterans of the U.S. Army, and my mother was a senior cryptanalyst for the Army Security Agency during World War II. I was a Republican through college at UCLA for four years, a true believer. But when I was a police officer on the streets of South Central, around 1977, the CIA tried to recruit me. I discovered that the CIA was dealing drugs, laundering $600 billion a year in drug profits through the U.S. financial markets. I said, "I won't get involved in dealing drugs. I became a cop to stop drugs." Which resulted, ultimately, in the end of my career. People were trying to kill me.

Do you still feel threatened by the government? The threats on me are not now so much physical, because that would cause too many problems. There have been severe and sustained efforts by the government to put me out of business. They've sabotaged records, things like that. That kind of pressure on me has been very intense, especially since the book came out.

Is the war on drugs connected to the war on terror? Well, yes. It's primarily an economic connection. One of the most important things that happened after 9-11 — and boy, we predicted this — is that the Taliban had destroyed roughly 96 percent of all the opium grown in Afghanistan right before 9-11. That move took an estimated $200 billion in liquid cash, laundered money, out of Western banks. Since the U.S. occupied Afghanistan, which it did right after 9-11, Afghan opium production has exponentially grown. Afghanistan, under CIA control, now supplies more than 75 percent of all the heroin grown on the planet. That's to keep the drug money flowing through Western banks to keep the U.S. economy sustained.

If you could change one thing about the world today, what would it be? I would change the way money works. We are seeing in the human paradigm a collision between the requirement for infinite growth and finite energy. The economy paradigm places incentives on destruction and death. The energy companies and the banks are going to make more money by killing people on the way down the peak oil slope. That's how profits are made. Until you change the way money works, you can't change anything else.

Do we have to change capitalism before we can shift to a more sustainable society? It is now a futile effort to try to change the government or the economy. Governments and economies move too slowly. My philosophy is to educate people on ways that they can save themselves, their communities and their neighbors. All we can do now is empower people, and that's what I see happening in the Pacific Northwest. All throughout the region, people are waking up. They're working local currencies, permaculture, everything else that needs to happen to help people survive. I happen to love the state of Oregon deeply, and I'm trying like heck to move there. I will be a resident of Oregon someday.

I've heard talk of the Pacific Northwest, from San Francisco to B.C., potentially breaking into a separate state. Do you see that happening? Yes. I think that at some point, the U.S. government plans to divide the country into 10 regions. As the economy collapses and as the world situation grows tenser, the U.S. government won't be able to police the entire country. A civil war, at some point, is not out of the question, if for no other reason than because the draft is coming, and because the U.S. military is so over-extended right now that military families are being horribly abused. We can't sustain that. I'm aware of maybe 15 or 20 very great thinkers on the subject of peak oil and war who, if not already there, are moving into the Pacific Northwest region, and dammit, I'm doing it too.

You're describing an increasingly isolationist world that seems to contradict globalization. Globalization is dead. Why are we flying strawberries from Chile to markets in Los Angeles? You know how much energy that takes? You cannot ship goods around the world anymore. Seventy percent of world's transportation is powered by oil. Fuel costs are rising; they're going through the roof. So globalization is totally dead.

The economy is killing globalization? Exactly. Geography will determine everything. Korea and ultimately Japan will have to fold into China's sphere of influence. Britain will have to join Europe whether it wants to or not because the only natural gas it can get is from Russia, and it will come through the European Union. Latin America is unifying so rapidly from an economic standpoint you can't believe it. Even from a survival standpoint locally, it's gonna be what's in your neighborhood that's gonna save your life, not the government.

Does biology also play a factor?
If I were to sum up the problem facing mankind right now, I would use one word: overpopulation. Planet Earth before the oil age had a carrying capacity of roughly 2 billion people. There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy in every calorie of food consumed on the planet. You take away the oil and natural gas, you take away the food. When we hit our peak, we run into a situation called population overshoot. We see the mathematical shortfalls, and now the population cannot sustain itself and we reach a point of collapse. I do not have any plan, myself, to depopulate the planet. But what terrifies me is that I'm certain that Dick Cheney, the Rockefellers, the Bushes, the economic elite, do have a plan to depopulate the planet.

All of this is pretty disheartening. [Laughs.] I know. I'm sorry to do that. But I and many others are very gratified to see that tens of thousands of people are making changes in their own personal lifestyles as a result of the information we're putting out. They are preparing themselves to survive. That's gratifying.

So it's not necessarily the end of humanity, just life as we know it?
One of the best quotes I've ever heard was from one of the premier spokesmen for peak oil, Colin Campbell, an eminently credible retired petroleum geologist who was the head of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil. He said, "The species Homo Sapiens may not become extinct, but the sub-species of Petroleum Man most certainly will."

Mike Ruppert uses the operative word to describe the Cheney-Bush regime,
that of Empire, an all-encompassing octopus-like power grab at world
preeminence at the expense of international order. With "Crossing
The Rubicon" Ruppert has clearly established himself alongside
the venerable essayist and political critic Gore Vidal as articulate
voices decrying the rush to Empire and the tragic consequences of such
dictatorial actions. ....

"This is the man who cost CIA Director Deutch his guaranteed
appointment as Secretary of Defense after confronting him at Locke High
School with hard facts about CIA dealing drugs." - Dick Gregory,
publisher of Global Watch.

In 1992 People Magazine wrote: "...in the course of investigations
in the mid 70's he came across information that the CIA was trading
drugs in order to fund covert operations in the Middle East...Perot
called him back to offer encouragement...Ruppert says that his main
objective is to see that the country gets a leader worthy of its people.
Even for Ross Perot those will be tough shoes to fill."
"Mike Ruppert is a one man crusade trying to expose America's bogus
war on drugs. From the time we met on the campaign trail in 1992 while
filming THE LAST PARTY, through his challenge to John Deutch, Mike Ruppert
has been on the front line trying to get the story out." - Marc
Levin, - Emmy award winning Director of PBS's The Secret Government,
THE LAST PARTY and Producer of Bill Moyers' 1998 series on Addiction.
Mike Ruppert, 51, is the Publisher/Editor of From the Wilderness or
FTW, a newsletter he founded in March 1998 by mailing out 68 copies
to friends and researchers. Some folks might also know this by his mirror
site copvcia.com. FTW is now read by more than 4,000 subscribers in
32 countries including 20 members of the US Congress and professors
at 15 universities in the US and Canada. Through the newsletter and
his website at www.copvcia.com, Mike has pioneered innovative analysis
and groundbreaking original stories on the impact of $5-600 billion
per year in drug money moving through the US economy and the illegal
covert operations which maintain control of that cash flow for US economic
interests.
An Honors graduate of UCLA in Political Science (1973), Mike is a former
LAPD narcotics investigator who discovered CIA trafficking in drugs
in 1977. After attempting to expose this he was forced out of LAPD in
1978 while earning the highest rating reports possible and having no
pending disciplinary actions. In 1996, after 18 years of struggle, he
finally achieved one of his deepest wishes in a face to face public
encounter with then CIA Director John Deutch on national television.
Washington sources later told Mike that Deutch's mishandling of the
encounter cost him a guaranteed appointment as Secretary of Defense.
Mike's stories, which have expanded to include economic analysis and
detailed exposés of the CIA and the American political system,
have been reprinted in 12 countries. Now a popular lecturer on the college
circuit, Mike has given dozens of lectures on "The Truth &
Lies of 9-11" in three countries. He is a regular guest on talk
radio shows at major stations throughout the country.
In the wake of the September 11th attacks Mike was among the first to
be publicly critical of a number of transparent flaws in the official
story presented by the US government. In more than sixty stories since
9-11 he has followed his tested strategy of using only government documents,
official statements or verifiable press reports as the basis for his
work. As a result he has been openly received by several members of
Congress and maintains open lines of communication with congressional
and committee staffs.
On November 28, 2001 Mike gave his first post 9-11 lecture at Portland
State University, which was attended by more than 1,000 and resulted
in a standing ovation. FTW's video, The Truth and Lies About 9-11, has
sold more than 4500 copies. It includes special exclusive interviews
with Representatives Ron Paul (R-TX), Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Barbara
Lee (D-CA), Professor Peter Dale Scott, (UC, Berkeley), Professor John
Metzger (Michigan State) and Catherine Austin Fitts (former Assistant
Secretary of Housing and Managing Director, Dillon Read).
Mike is soon to be publishing a book based on his experiences and researches
called "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire
at the End of the Age of Oil". An excerpt, Chapter 23, of the book
can be read online. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/022803_chap_23.html
To learn more about Mike, click here http://www.fromthewilderness.com/about_Mike_part_one.html
to read a two part, 1981 Herald Examiner series on Michael C. Ruppert.

Monday, December 06, 2004
Fueling a Profitable Future: 9/11 and U.S. Energy Policy
By Russ Wellen
A Review of Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at
the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert (New Society, 674 pages,
$22.95).

By marching his forces across that most infamous of rivers, the Rubicon,
and into Rome, Julius Caesar not only trampled on its constitution,
but sowed the seeds for fascism centuries later. Now, with Crossing
the Rubicon, Michael Ruppert, founder of FromTheWilderness.com, implores
us to make an about-face on our own march toward the system of governance
on which even Mussolini bestowed the alias, “corporatism.”
....

While many of us have heard about the Project for a New American Century’s
lust for a new Pearl Harbor to open the floodgates for military intervention,
we know little about Dick Cheney’s US National Energy Policy Development
Group. Extrapolating from the few documents the conservative watchdog
Judicial Watch was able to secure under the Freedom of Information Act,
Ruppert maintains that in April 2001 the NEPDG signed off on plans to
cross the Rubicon -- that is, secure what oil remains by facilitating
attacks on the US.
Next Cheney was placed in charge of all response to a terror attack,
including control of FEMA. A month later most of the decision-making
power to scramble NORAD fighter jets was taken out of the hands of commanders
and remanded to the secretary of defense. Then when the depth of the
Caspian Basin’s inadequacy became known, engendering fears of
a market crash, plans for the attack were put in action before they
were finalized, thus accounting for mistakes in execution and cover-up.
While Ruppert provides no smoking gun, you watch with lurid fascination
as the pieces fall into place with such precision that the tumbler in
your brain clicks, the lock opens, and the scenario is admitted. Ruppert’s
coup is discovering, as many now know, that it’s the war games,
stupid.
On September 11, NORAD, the FAA, the Canadian Air Force, and the National
Reconnaissance Office were conducting as many as five war-game drills.
Not only were fighters diverted from the northeast US, but the insertion
of blips simulating emergencies onto radar screens bewitched air traffic
controllers’ lost in the fog of war games. Ruppert discounts the
likelihood of a stand-down order to fighter pilots, because, as he reminds
us, they’re constitutionally incapable of remaining in a holding
pattern while their country is attacked.
As for the hijackers, Ruppert theorizes that, other than the “muscle,”
they were CIA assets too valuable to lose. Lest you think that the remote
control he suggests guided the planes is the realm of fantasy, refer
to the unmanned X-43A jet with which, as of this writing, NASA is attempting
to set a speed record.
By exploring the links between Wall Street and the CIA and emphasizing
the influence of overlords like the Trilateral Commission and the Council
on Foreign Relations, Ruppert encourages us to look beyond the current
administration. For this alone we owe him a debt of gratitude: Four
more years of hating the dynamic duo could have almost as debilitating
an effect on us as their policies. Besides, as Ruppert says, “...
you will change nothing until you change the way money works.”
....

Crossing the Rubicon is one of those rare books capable of ruining
a reviewer’s credibility by seducing the superlatives out of him.
It is, however, open to another interpretation. Sure, Cheney accords
Halliburton hallowed-ground status. But to many, the American way of
life, which Cheney declares is “not negotiable,” is an end
that more than justifies the means, however untidy. In other words,
he cares, he really cares.

Peak Ruppert was probably in 2004, around the time of Crossing the Rubicon.

Rubicon had some excellent and important material in it. The central thesis -- that 9/11 was allowed to happen as part of covert preparation for Peak Energy -- is at the core of understanding what's happening with global resource conflicts.

Dealing with deep issues is difficult at best, most people choose to ignore them and hope they go away on their own. That's worse than the way Ruppert focused on them.

There were a number of examples where he would make grandiose predictions that were generally true on the big scale, but the timing would be totally wrong. Anticipating that the housing bubble would burst, and that peak energy would be a factor, was correct. Assigning specific dates to it was a fool's errand.

Richard Heinberg wrote an article looking at a decade of peak predictions. No one is going to be precisely correct as we all slide down Hubbert's curve.

"10 Years After 'The Party's Over': an interview with Richard Heinberg"

In the space of a few days in mid April, two fighters for the truth about America's recent history were lost to us. John Judge passed away in Washington D.C. and Mike Ruppert passed in Napa, California. It's appropriate that the two deaths in essence straddled the country. Because in a real sense, John and Mike worked hard to create an alterative paradigm to the MSM's version of contemporary American history.

Just three weeks ago I saw Mike for the first time in four years. We talked at a restaurant; then, a couple of days later, I was a guest on his Lifeboat Hour radio show. He had clearly been to hell and back since we last saw each other, but appeared to have come to a better place within himself. He had a couple of big projects on the horizon and gave no hint of the end that he would choose. During the past decade he alerted many thousands of people to the precarious nature of our global, fossil-fueled industrial system, and many of those folks changed their careers or moved to another location in search of more resilience and sustainability. That's a legacy that deserves enduring thanks.

from
the introduction to Michael Ruppert's lecture in Eugene, Oregon on
May 31, 2005

Mike Ruppert’s publication From the Wilderness states that it provides
a road map for understanding world events. if you were lost in a place
you don’t want to be, an accurate map that
told unpleasant truths would be more useful than a map that was more pleasant
but unable to help you extricate you from your predicament.

Facing the full truth, as much of it as can be determined, is needed
to solve our deepest problems. We can’t be “not
see’s” - who do not want to see - if we want a better
world.

Michael Ruppert is an Honors graduate of UCLA in Political Science and
a former LAPD narcotics investigator who discovered CIA trafficking in drugs in 1977. After attempting to expose this
he was forced out of LAPD in 1978. In 1996, after 18 years of being a
“voice crying in the wilderness” he managed to have a face
to face public encounter with then CIA Director John Deutch on national
television - the CIA director had gone to Watts to respond to community
uproar about the Cocaine Importation Agency ...

Mike is most notorious for being a courageous voice after September
11, who helped connect the dots to show that 9/11 was not a surprise attack, it was deliberately allowed to happen in order
to provide the pretext for a seizure of the Middle East oil reserves.

Most wars have some sort of justification created to whip up public fear and anger, something that top Nazi Herman
Goering said at the Nuremberg trials

All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce
the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in any country.

Eugene’s most famous politician, Senator Wayne Morse, saw through
the phony pretext of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964, and voted
no - while no one was killed by that deception, 58,000 Americans and about
three million Vietnamese were killed as a consequence.

Mike’s November 2001 presentation at Portland State University,
archived in the film “the Truth and Lies of 9/11,” has withstood
the test of time.

In early 2002, the liberal “alternative”
media responded to this information that Mike and many others had
compiled -- not by independently confirming whether the claims for complicity
were true or not -- but instead, they made crude efforts to ridicule and
discredit. These defenders of the “surprise attack” paradigm
include David Corn of The Nation, Norman Solomon and Chip Berlet. Whatever
their motivations, their actions did an enormous favor for Bush if the
media had made a serious effort to investigate 9/11, Bush would have been impeached and indicted,
and the invasion of Iraq might have been avoided.

Last year, when Crossing the Rubicon neared publication, I was curious
what sort of reception it would have in the media and by the powers that
be.

Last May, when Amy Goodman was in Eugene,
she replied “good” when told that Mike’s book was about
to be published, but her show Democracy Now will not put him on the air.
A few voices in Pacifica have promoted this information, but not many. KBOO in Portland, a co-sponsor
of his talk on Thursday, and has aired these issues since 2001 -- but
they are a minority in the media, even in the alternative media. KWVA
at the University of Oregon and KOPT had interviews on Friday. We need
to vote with our money to support media that dare to investigate unpopular
truths and pressure those that ignore the core issues of 9/11, Peak Oil
and the reasons for the Iraq war.

Now that “Crossing the Rubicon” is available, a strange
smear campaign has accelerated on the internet making all sorts of bizarre
accusations about Mike from voices promoting extreme ideas about 9/11
complicity that lack any substantive evidence, an effort that seems to
be the official response to the book. These efforts resemble Karl
Rove style hoaxes - use fake evidence of scandals to turn off the
media and the public to looking at the real evidence -- is a strategy
that is now being used to turn people off from looking at Peak Oil.

The precise timing of Peak Oil is not the issue - whether it is now,
next year, or in a decade or two doesn’t matter much nor change
the need to shift course from exponential growth that is devouring the
very basis for the planet’s ability to sustain humanity.

Surviving and thriving after Peak Oil will require using the resources
currently invested in the military. How we use the remaining half of the
oil determines the future of human civilization: Will we use the remaining
oil to make solar panels and relocalize food production, or will we use
it to build more military equipment to control the oil as it runs out?

Converting those resources to peaceful, permaculture use will require removing the pretext for what Cheney calls the "war
that will not end in our lifetime".

A century ago, Thomas Edison said "I'd put my money on the sun
and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait
until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."

Three years ago, FTW’s science editor wrote:

You see, there is a lot more at stake here than just a continuation
of the Cold War or U.S. imperialistic greed. There is enough energy
remaining in the world right now for us -- the people -- to take control
and ease ourselves into a democratic, egalitarian, stable-state society.
Or there is enough energy for the elite to build a feudalistic, fascist,
police state with themselves at the top. This is the choice facing us
right now, and this is what is truly at stake.

July 1, 2003 1600 PDT (FTW) -- Let's just suppose for a moment
that George W. Bush was removed from the White House. Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld,
Ashcroft, Wolfowitz and Rove too. What would that leave us with? It would leave
us stuck in hugely expensive, Vietnam-like guerrilla wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It would leave us with the Patriot Act, Homeland Security and Total Information
Awareness snooping into every detail of our lives. It would leave us with a
government in violation of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments to the
Constitution. It would leave us with a massive cover-up of US complicity in
the attacks of 9/11 that, if fully admitted, would show
not intelligence "failures" but intelligence
crimes, approved and ordered by the most powerful people in the country. It
would leave us with a government that now has the power to compel mass vaccinations
on pain of imprisonment or fine, and with no legal ability to sue the vaccine
makers who killed our friends or our children. It would leave us with two and
half million unemployed; the largest budget deficits in history; more than $3.3
trillion missing from the Department of Defense; and state and local governments
broke to the point of having to cut back essential services like sewers, police,
and fire. It would leave us with a federal government that had hit the debt
ceiling and was unable to borrow any more money. And we would still be facing
a looming natural gas crisis of unimagined proportions, and living on a planet
that is slowly realizing that it is running out of oil with no "Plan B".
Our airports however, would be very safe, and shares of Halliburton, Lockheed
and DynCorp would be paying excellent dividends.
This is not good management.
Leaving all of these issues unaddressed is not good management either.
And this is why, as I will demonstrate in this article, the decision has already
been made by corporate and financial powers to remove George W. Bush, whether
he wants to leave or not, and whether he steals the next election or not. Before
you start cheering, ask yourself three questions: "If there is someone
or something that can decide that Bush will not return, nor remain for long,
what is it? And if that thing is powerful enough to remove Bush, was it not
also powerful enough to have put him there in the first place? And if that is
the case, then isn't that what's really responsible for the state of things?
George W. Bush is just a hired CEO who is about to be removed by the "Board
of Directors". Who are they? Are they going to choose his replacement?
Are you going to help them?
What can change this Board of Directors and the way the "Corporation"
protects its interests? These are the only issues that matter.So now the honest question about the 2004 Presidential
campaign is, "What do you really want out of it?" Do you want the
illusion that everything is a little better while it really gets worse? Or are
you ready yet to roll up your sleeves and make some very unpleasant but necessary
fixes?The greatest test of the 2004
presidential election campaign is not with the candidates. It is with the people. There are strong signs that presidential election issues on the Democratic side
are already being manipulated by corporate and financial interests. And some
naïve and well-intentioned (and some not-so-naïve and not-so-well
intentioned) activists are already playing right into the Board's hands. There
are many disturbing signs that the only choice offered to the American people
will be no choice at all. Under the psychological rationale, "This is the
way it has to be done", campaign debates will likely address only half-truths
and fail to come to grips with - or even acknowledge - the most important issues
that I just described. In fact, only the least important issues will likely
be addressed in campaign 2004 at the usual expense of future generations who
are rapidly realizing that they are about to become the victims of the biggest
Holocaust in mankind's history. The final platforms for Election 2004 will likely
be manifestos of madness unless we dictate differently.
Some on the Democratic side are already positioning themselves to co-opt and
control what happened on 9/11 into a softer, less disturbing "Better this
than nothing" strategy. This attitude, that the only thing that matters
is finding an electable Democrat, is nothing more than a rearrangement of deck
chairs on the Titanic. Has everyone suddenly forgotten that the
2000 election was stolen: first by using software and political machinery
to disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible voters, then by open interference
at polling places, and finally by an absolutely illegal Supreme Court decision?
Do these people believe that such a crime, absolutely successful the first time,
will never be attempted again?
And has everyone also forgotten that in the 2002 midterm elections the proprietary
voting software, in many cases owned by those affiliated with the Republican
Party or - as in the case of Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska - the candidates
themselves, has been ruled by the Supreme Court to be immune from public inspection.
(Hagel won by a lopsided 83% majority). Throughout the United States in 2002
there was abundant evidence that the so-called "solution" to hanging
chads did nothing more than enshrine the ability to steal elections with immunity
and also much less fuss afterwards? Who in their right mind would trust such
a system? Why have none of the candidates mentioned it?
And, if all else fails, we can have more Wellstone plane
crashes. It has worked with three Democratic Senate candidates in key races
over the last thirty years. Maybe that's why no one in Congress is talking about
the election process. Plane crashes are part of that process too.
Unless people find the will to address scandals, lies, and betrayals of trust
that, by their very existence, reveal that the system itself is corrupt and
that the people controlling it - both in government, and in America's corporations
and financial institutions -- are criminals, there is no chance to make anything
better, only an absolute certainty that things will get worse. ....

Unless people find the will to address scandals, lies, and betrayals
of trust that, by their very existence, reveal that the system itself is corrupt
and that the people controlling it - both in government, and in America's corporations
and financial institutions -- are criminals, there is no chance to make anything
better, only an absolute certainty that things will get worse. ....There is only one difference between the evidence
showing the Bush administration's criminal culpability in and foreknowledge
of the attacks of 9/11, and the evidence showing that the administration deceived
the American public about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.Both sets of evidence are thoroughly documented. They are irrefutable
and based upon government records and official statements and actions shown
to be false, misleading or dishonest. And both sets of evidence are unimpeachable. The difference is that the evidence showing the
Iraqi deception is being seriously and widely investigated by
the mainstream press, and actively by an ever-increasing number of elected representatives. That's it.

NOVEMBER 26, 2003
THE KENNEDYS, PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND 9/11
by Michael C. Ruppert. What works, what doesn't and a long overdue amends to
our readers. There is much to be learned from the 40th anniversary of the JFK
assassination, other great crimes and what has worked on the post-9/11 playing
field. But we may not have forty years to debate the point.
Read Now: www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/112603_kennedy.html

excerpt:
What I believe is that on Septmeber 11th, many of the alleged hijackers were
likely not even aboard the planes, and that it is possible that they were
flown (via existing and well-documented) remote control technology. I believe
that none of the alleged hijackers had acquired the proficiency required to
perform the complicated maneuvers used. I do not accept the government's version
of the collapses of the towers and WTC 7, and I believe that those collapses
were caused by artificial means other than the aircraft collisions. The fact
that there are credible mainstream reports showing that many of the 19 hijackers
are still alive leads me to question the government's account further. But
with the hijackers, one confronts what is called in the intelligence trade
a "legend" of immense complexity that has not been definitively
unraveled. I do believe that some of the 19 hijackers were aboard the four
flights as tokens, and I am absolutely convinced that Flight 93 was shot down
as some attacks were allowed to take place successfully, and others were prevented.
An execellent analysis of this legend by Chaim Kupferberg is located at: "Truth,
Lies, and The Legend of 9/11", by Chaim Kupferberg. www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP310A.html
This brings me to an artificial "straw" argument that has evolved
from the controversy over physical evidence: Let-it-happen-on-purpose (LIHOP)
vs. Make it happen on purpose (MIHOP). Again, for the record, as I have stated
clearly on many occasions, I am absolutely convinced that the US government
was a deliberate facilitator of the attacks before they occurred. I believe
that the US government and its intelligence agencies - in cooperation with
other intelligence agencies, especially the Israeli Mossad, Pakistan's ISI
and Britain's MI6 - actively protected some of the 19 hijackers before the
attacks, and made sure that they were free and allowed to circulate unmolested
in order to fulfill the requirements of the "legend". One might
include Russia's DFS and Germany's BND in this list, but the evidence here
is inconclusive.
I believe that in its desperation to secure an attack "on the order of
Pearl Harbor" (that would, as Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in 1997, cause
the Amercian people to support "the imperial mobilization necessary"
to control 60% of the world's known energy resources), controlling elements
of the US government, using highly compartmentalized procedures, saw to it
that the attacks were carried out. I believe that those attacks were brought
together using elements of plans already in place within Al Qaeda (Project
Bojinka), the above named intelligence services, and some cooperation from
Saudi "assets" operating outside the Saudi government, and that
they were "enhanced" and refined by US intelligence agencies using
existing assets and covert manipulation of command and control capabilities
to ensure that fighter aircraft were not scrambled in a normal fashion as
they had been 67 times in the year before 9/11.
I believe that much of Al Qaeda and many of the so-called hijackers were either
witting or completely unwitting US assets who were either ordered, pushed
or manipulated into fulfilling their roles on 9/11. I do not believe that
it is established that Khalid Sheikh Muhammad was captured, or that he delivered
the confessions which have been attributed to him. Multiple credible mainstream
press reports indicate that he was either killed or still remains at large.
The only thing we have to go on here is the government's questionable word
and no appearance of KSM to back it up.

owlindaylight said...
(edited because the original post was a tad reactionary)

Most of the people I see criticizing Ruppert are what I consider the second-tier
theorists ... they get their info from other researchers, pick their favorites,
and spend their online time onanistically savaging the others with ad hominem
attacks.
Mike Ruppert has his flaws, no doubt about it. But let's remember what he did:
He provided unimpeachable research from primary sources over a lengthy career,
research that couldn't be found anywhere else, and gave us a map we're all using
to some degree or another. Anybody notice how, right after Stan Goff and Ruppert's
piece on Pat Tillman, for example, the shit hit the proverbial fan in the media
about this story, when it had been quiet for years? Remember how Mike was telling
us about the multiple simultaneous wargames on 9/11, years before NORAD came
out and admitted it in that Vanity Fair piece? These kinds of stories couldn't
be found anywhere but FTW. That was what I *happily* paid for.
Disagree with elements of his "map" all you want, criticize him rightly
for his character flaws ... fine. But too much of the criticism I hear of him
is so very petty, and doesn't address his body of work. A great deal of the
anti-Ruppert commentary I've read in the RI comments section in the past, and
some of it from this post, has come from armchair theorists who haven't done
one iota of the WORK Mike Ruppert did.
How many people can claim to have gotten up in front of John Deutch and publicly
proclaimed him to be a crack-smuggling liar? All those "Ruppert-is-a-disinfo-agent"
smartasses who see a CIA operative behind every rock have never had to deal
with real harassment of the kind Ruppert endured. It's sad, to see how the "deep
politics" community bashes one of its own.

see www.oilempire.us/gatekeepers.html for the "Left Wing" attacks in 2002 by David Corn, Washington Editor
for The Nation, Norman Solomon (FAIR / Institute for Public Accuracy), Chip
Berlet and other ostensible leftists who came to the defense of the Bush adminstration
when it was incredibly vulnerable

After "Rubicon" was published, a new round of discrediting
attacks was launched, as described below:

WING TV (Wingnut TV?)A shoddy effort to discredit Ruppert's work while ignoring the
information in "Rubicon"

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
Beware: Anti-Ruppert Campaign Has Started!, November 11, 2004
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R. Stanson - <http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2F1SFO2B6L4U5/ref=cm_cr_auth/104-0252411-2578325?%5Fencoding=UTF8>See
all my reviews
Mike Ruppert is unquestionably a great American hero. His book, Crossing the
Rubicon, is the single most important book written in the last fifty years at
least. The Patriot Act, Homeland Security and the lies about WMDs in Iraq have
created a growing sense of unease in the collective unconscious. As a result,
a growing number of intellectuals and every day citizens are begining to see
the Truth and more and more people are begining to wake up every day. Crossing
the Rubicon is at the forefront of this new awareness. Most reviewers here have
already done a great job summarizing the content of Mike's book. The many five
star reviews are well deserved.
I want to write a note about the campaign to discredit Mike Ruppert and his
book, a campaign which has apparently begun full blast. Another reviewer has
already correctly noted how the few one-star reviews on this site follow the
standard rules of organized disinformation campaigns. Through the use of innuendo,
character assasination, and classic misdirection, several reviewers make it
appear that the book rests its case on a handful of issues, such as the Vreeland
case. In fact, all 696 pages are saturated with enough well documented and diverse
evidence to prove the 911 criminal conspiracy many times over while adhering
to the highest possible journalistic standards. Mike makes a case that could
actually hold up in a court of law, whereas the establishment case for 911 could
not even hold up in a high school debate. Quite a pathetic comment on the state
of our society but I digress.
The most comically pathetic aspect of the disinformation campaign is a new "conspiracy
website TV show" which proceeds to slam Ruppert in a laughable thirty-minute
video. They make such shocking claims that Ruppert is "rude...impolite...a
liar, blah, blah, blah" without offering anything substantive to back up
their "claims". Anyone with even a degree of clear perception can
clearly see that these people are either operatives with very poor acting skills
or low grade actors hired by operatives. The lack of sincerity in their eyes,
their nervous body language and laughable "faux-left-wing" wardrobe
and demeanor betray an obvious Wag the Dog operation. A little research into
their website and published books indicate that the entire operation has been
slapped together in the last few months, no doubt to coincide with the publication
of Crossing the Rubicon. This type of thing might fool the sheeple who think
CNN is their friend. But those of us who have already seen the underbelly of
the Propaganda Beast can only shake our heads in sad amusement. What a joke.
Ruppert is wise to simply briefly address their libel on his own site but otherwise
ignore them.
As Crossing the Rubicon gains ground, one can only imagine what new lows the
disinformation campaign will hit. What's next? Websites that scream: Mike Ruppert
Married Satan and Gave Birth to a Pink Alien Octopuss who Molested your Mother!!
Don't TRUST HIM!!
Hang in there Mr. Ruppert. Heroes are rarely recognized in their own time. You
may or may not get the adulation you deserve in this lifetime but your work
will help many people survive the coming storm.
Generations will owe you.

The “No Arabs aboard” attack was fail-safed and backstopped
with missiles hidden in the undercarriage of the airliners, explosive charges
secreted inside WTC7, and a voodoo hex placed on the WTC by the Spiders from
Mars.
It’s not an excuse to hold a UFO Conference with an entrée for
every conspiratorial taste—like the 9/11 Conference in San Francisco—where
attendees can check out everything from plaster molds of alien footprints
to literature written by alien abductees to presentations on "The Reptilian
Perspective: Serpents of Wisdom or Snakes in the Grass.”

Earth to Mike: It wasn't “Peak Oil” slitting passenger’s
throats on those hijacked airliners.
“Peak Oil” bears the same relationship to the 9/11 investigation
that the Iraq War bears to the World Trade Center Attack.

Dear Daniel Hopsicker:

I've read your latest "article" that mixes some truth with some
blatantly wrong material. There are so many mistakes here that it's hard to
know where to start.
First, you're right to point out that there are some cointelpro type disinfo
artists masquerading as 9/11 skeptics. The "pod and flash" people
are perhaps the most blatant example of this, although the topic certainly attracts
non-governmental groupies whose enthusiasm is not matched by fact checking or
even a skeptical approach to wild claims that are based on bogus photos. I recommend
looking through www.oilempire.us/bogus.html -- a page
that our friend Kris Millegan has given great praise to, and one that has attracted
attacks and ugly abuse directed against me (but no substantive rebuttals).
Second, Ruppert has similar journalist credentials as you do. Neither of you
publish for a major institution. Both of you have dug up some original material
on 9/11. I hope there's not too much jealousy going on. Who gives you omnipotent
power to determine who is and who is not a journalist?
It is fascinating that in your attack on him you don't dare discuss the information
that is disclosed in "Crossing the Rubicon" such as the six war games
that were underway on 9/11 that paralyzed the Air Force protection of Washington
and New York. That is a very interesting omission. I don't know anything about
the "Pinnacle" company you discuss, whether it is honorable or sleazy
or neutral. But whether it is wonderful or a scam does not have any relevance
that I can see to the factual material in "Crossing the Rubicon."
When I attack folks for putting out things that aren't true, I take the time
to read their material before putting my foot in my mouth (such as the "bogus.html"
page referenced above).
It would also be interesting to know in your allegations about the Toronto inquiry
being supposedly funded by Mr. Khashoggi if you would dare to point out that
the organizers are deeply in the hole financially (partially some poor decisions
that resulted in an event that was too long and poorly attended compared to
the expectations of the organizers). Mr. Khashoggi is even wealthier than Teresa
Heinz Kerry, and if he really was funding all of this stuff, those of us scraping
dollars together for ISP fees and copies would be flush with cash (and not merely
deception dollars). If he's funding this stuff, how come I haven't gotten my
check yet?
Some simple fact checking would have prevented some other glaring errors. 911visibility.org has nothing to do with Mr. Fred Burks (the
911visibility folks are quite perplexed at your inability to discern who is
who, which doesn't reflect well on your investigative reporting skills). Perhaps
if the "we" that you write in (when you mean "I") would
be better if you had an editor to fact check basic claims such as this. I did
attend the Berkeley Unitarian event last fall that you lampoon. It must be wonderful
to have such finely attuned psychic ability to be able to discern how the event
went when you were not there.
As John Judge has stated, the key question with 9/11 is how the protection of
the Pentagon was turned off -- AFTER the second tower had been hit. This is
one question that the powers-that-be dare not answer. I don't buy the "no
plane" theory at the Pentagon (see www.oilempire.us/pentagon.html),
but I would love to know how a flight school drop out managed to spiral dive
into the nearly empty, recently reconstructed and strengthened sector of the
compound, thereby minimizing casualties. It is actually strong circumstantial
evidence that remote control flight technology was used (hijacking the hijackers?)
- see www.oilempire.us/remote.html I know that Kris
Millegan's "Fleshing Out Skull and Bones" book has some info on this,
too.
Your discussion of the San Francisco Inquiry in March suffered from inventing
bogus claims to discredit it. I was there the entire time, and did not see the
fabled "alien footprints" that you claimed were for sale. I did see
material there that I thought was bogus, but it would have been much more useful
for establishing truth to point out the material there that is not true, instead
of making up material to discredit the event. What sort of journalism is it
to invent fake facts?
Also, your citing of John Kaminski in order to discredit the inquiry suffered
from a misunderstanding -- Mr. Kaminski is probably not an authentic 9/11 truth
investigator, given his promotion of blatant disinformation (Search "Shadows
of a Hologram" for details) that claims there wasn't a plane at the North
Tower and his promotion of neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel (search for "kaminski
zundel"). No planes and no gas chambers? It's probable that this is a dirty
trick against the 9/11 movement to muddy the waters and discredit by association,
although it is possible that he is merely completely incompetent yet very prolific.
Finally, if you're going to be holier than thou about all of this, you might
want to consider the links that you have on your "madcowprod" website.
It's not consistent to attack Mike Ruppert and link to his website. It's not
consistent to make up a story claiming alien footprints were central to the
9/11 inquiry and then link to rense.com (which is notorious for promoting disinfo)
and davidicke (who claims that the rulers of Earth are alien reptiles). TomFlocco.com
is a mixed bag -- he has done some decent reporting on 9/11, but also praises
the phony film "InPlaneSite" and the
associated bogus website "letsroll911" AmericanFreePress praises holocaust
denial and now even claims that there wasn't a plane in Pennsylvania, even though
there were plenty of eyewitnesses and physical evidence that there was. ConspiracyPlanet.com
is yet another site that offers readers a mix of real scandal and nonsense that
muddies the waters (I don't link to it on my site).
Hunter S. Thompson wrote "gonzo" journalism very well, but I don't
recall him ever writing in the first person plural to describe his own thoughts.
At least he had the excuse of massive drug use to cover up his mistakes.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Sincerely,
Mark Robinowitz
www.oilempire.us

Peak oil is a motivation for allowing the attacks, not the mechanic of the
attacks. This is a classic non sequitor that would flunk a freshman logic course.
Peak oil does bear quite a bit of relationship to the WTC attack -- it created
the psychological shock that allowed the Iraq invasion to happen. It's like
the old saying by bank robber Willie Sutton: "why do you rob banks? that's
where the money is" Read an excellent analogy comparing 9/11 to a bank
robbery at www.oilempire.us/911.html and how the
proven evidence around 9/11 does fit an "inside job" paradigm at www.oilempire.us/understanding.html
I assume you know about patsies, Lee Harvey Oswald, false flag operations, the
Reichstag Fire (and the luring of Mr. Van Der Lubbe into the Reichstag), and
Operation Northwoods.
As for your false claim that the “Remote Controllers” scenario results
in no one getting indicted, for example, I direct you to the information about
Mr. Dov Zakheim, Comptroller of the Pentagon from 2001 until early this year
(2004), who came from a company that builds remote control flight systems. He
should be a witness in any real investigation, if one with subpoena power is
ever held.www.oilempire.us/remote.html#zakheimwww.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0206/S00071.htm
In addition, while it is not possible to take "peak oil into custody,"
it IS possible to establish motivation(s) for allowing 9/11 to happen (ie. by
suppressing multiple investigations that would have prevented it) and the probable
technical assistance provided to ensure the paralysis of the Air Force response
to the hijacked planes and the guidance of the third plane into the mostly empty
part of the Pentagon.
Do you really think the fact that Atta was violent and that the flight schools
had sleazy connections is the central issue of how the Cheney administration
allowed (at the very least) 9/11 to happen?
Your Barry and the Boys book was much better at avoiding the "scenery"
(as the Jim Garrison character in "JFK" put it) and focusing more
on motivation. Would you now go back and focus on the alleged Oswald character
as a nut case (in his many staged incidents before Nov 22 1963) and claim that
this proves he wasn't the patsy after all? Do you really believe the FBI found
a Koran and an Arabic language Boeing manual in the parking garage at Logan
Airport, or that they found a paper passport of a hijacker on the streets of
Manhattan that somehow had passed unscathed through the fireballs?